so many people are fond of saying "porn launched all these different technologies" (I say it that way because I am not fond of saying it) that I think this post would better be summed up as "crypto is the new porn"

meaning, it more than doesn't matter if a technology finds a unsavory butlucrative market, precisely that lucre is what funds early stage development of the technology to the point where it can grow into commodity markets.

(and this is more "the elephant in the Haskell room" than any type of Haskell elephant)